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Permanent Revolution : The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism / James Simpson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674240537
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274.206 23
LOC classification:
  • BR375
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Regnal Dates -- Introduction -- PART 1. Religion as Revolution -- PART 2. Working Modernity’s Despair -- PART 3. Sincerity and Hypocrisy -- PART 4. Breaking Idols -- PART 5. Theater, Magic, Sacrament -- PART 6. Managing Scripture -- PART 7. Liberty and Liberties -- Conclusion -- Note on Texts and Citations -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Summary: How did the English Reformation, with its illiberal, intolerant beginnings, lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment—free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, constitutionalism, and all the rest? In his provocative rewriting of the history of liberalism, James Simpson uncovers its unexpected debt to Protestant evangelicalism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Regnal Dates -- Introduction -- PART 1. Religion as Revolution -- PART 2. Working Modernity’s Despair -- PART 3. Sincerity and Hypocrisy -- PART 4. Breaking Idols -- PART 5. Theater, Magic, Sacrament -- PART 6. Managing Scripture -- PART 7. Liberty and Liberties -- Conclusion -- Note on Texts and Citations -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

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How did the English Reformation, with its illiberal, intolerant beginnings, lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment—free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, constitutionalism, and all the rest? In his provocative rewriting of the history of liberalism, James Simpson uncovers its unexpected debt to Protestant evangelicalism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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